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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[May 20, 1871. 
iii tlie Pharmaceutical Journal, and from the de¬ 
bates in the Houses of Paliament,—-particularly from 
the speeches of Mr. Lowe, Mr. Bruce, Lord Gran¬ 
ville and Lord Bedesdale, —to show that the obli¬ 
gation was generally known and recognized at that 
time. The consequence of a repudiation of the con- 
tract by the Society would be injurious to its in- 
thience, and would inevitably lead to inspection by 
causing the Privy Council to seek further legis¬ 
lation. 
Mr. Giles’s amendment was seconded by Mr. 
Baldock, and a long discussion took place, the re¬ 
sult of which was, that on division 85 votes were 
given for the amendment and 104 against it. The 
re solution moved by the President was then put 
and carried. 
In the course of the discussion which followed 
Mr. Giles s amendment, some of the speakers took 
occasion to point out that it had been suggested the 
meeting was not competent to dispose of the ques¬ 
tion as to Poison Regulations, because many who 
were opposed to the compulsory application of those 
1 peculations were not present. It is satisfactory to 
find that this fallacy was not lost sight of, for if it 
veie to be seriously entertained, the performance 
of the Society s functions might be indefinitely sus¬ 
pended. If .the Annual Meeting of the Society be 
not a representative of the Society in its corporate 
capacity, it ought to be so; it is the absentees 
who are in fact responsible and to blame for any 
unfitness in the acts of the corporate body, or for 
any disregard of the opinions held by them, and there 
can scarcely be any more emphatic condemnation 
of those opinions than absence from the general 
meetings. 
Quite on a par with this idea is the outcry raised 
against the action of the Society by those who do 
not belong to it,—who, in the spirft of Uriah Heep, 
rejoice in calling themselves “ outsiders.” Several 
of those who took part in the discussion on Wednes¬ 
day, expressed opinions quite in accord with our 
recent remarks on this point; and though Mr. 
Urvick pleaded the existence of a bar as an excuse 
for not entering the Society, we were glad to see 
indications of the opinion that every one practising 
the art of Pharmacy should be a member of the 
Society. We fully believe with Mr. Humpage that 
t ie more “outsiders” are brought in contact with 
the Society, the more readily will their prejudices be 
dispelled, and the more powerfully will the pharma¬ 
cists of Great Britain be in the position to substitute 
for mere clamour, a public opinion entitled to respect 
and able to command it. 
At the moment of going to press, we learn that 
the voting for Members of Council has resulted in 
the election of Messrs. Atherton, Betty, Brown, 
Carr, Frazer, Greenish, Haselden, Hills, Mackay,’ 
Sandford, Shaw, Smith, Williams and Woolley. 
It was announced by the President of the Royal 
Academy, at the recent annual banquet of that body,, 
that it had been decided to establish a Professorship 
of Chemistry in connection with the Academy. The 
object ot its institution is to promote the study of the 
properties of colours, varnishes, etc., so as to ensure* 
as far as possible purity, and, above all, permanency 
of colour. In the recent exhibition of the ancient 
masters the fact has been apparent that while many 
of the old pictures—some of them three or four hun¬ 
dred years old—still retain their original brilliancy 
and purity of colour, some of those painted within 
the last fifty years by painters of European renown, 
have greatly deteriorated. The professor will be 
required to deliver practical lectures on the proper¬ 
ties of colours, which will be open to the students; 
and members, as well as artists generally, who may 
wish to be present. He will also be expected to give 
information respecting oil painting and mural dev¬ 
iation to any artist seeking it. In connection with 
this chair it is intended, as soon as the Government 
buildings are completed, to erect a laboratory for 
carrying out experiments with regard to colours. 
The following papers, which are copies of the- 
agreements entered into with pharmacists by assis¬ 
tants and apprentices in Hamburg, may be interest¬ 
ing to some of our readers as supplementary to the. 
articles which have recently appeared in tliis JoumaL 
on the practice of pharmacy on the Continent. They 
may also assist in affording an idea of the relations, 
existing there between assistants and apprentices, 
and their principals. 
The documents are signed by the Pharmaceutical 
Membeis of the Sanitary Council, and every phar¬ 
macist there is obliged to have his assistants or 
apprentices registered within a month of their en¬ 
gagement. 
Obligation of a Pharmaceutical Assistant. 
“ I> > after having been engaged at Mr.-’s. 
busmess, promise, upon my honour and conscience, to- 
show due respect and obedience to the Hon. Sanitary 
Council, especially to their medical and pharmaceutical 
members, also to my principal as my superior, to dis¬ 
pense all prescriptions without delay, by day or by night 
with duo attention and care, without the least alteration^ 
not to take one article for another, nor to permit the 
apprentices to do so; to prepare all chemical or other 
compounds, according to the legal Codex Medicamen- 
tanus, to keep everything properly and clean, to sell 
drastics, opiates, or poisons only with the knowledge of" 
my principal, or, in his absence, as far as the laws per¬ 
mit me, and, with due precaution, to follow strictly im 
dispensing the legal tariff, and in retail sales the instruc¬ 
tion of my principal; not to allow strangers to read the 
books in which the prescriptions are entered, to be polite- 
and modest towards everybody, to abstain from all pre¬ 
scribing, not to receive any visitors during business- 
hours, to fulfil all my duties diligently and faithfully, 
and to act in every respect as an honourable and upright 
pharmaceutical assistant.” 
Obligation of a Pharmaceutical Apprentice . 
U -Q > apprentice in Mr.-’s business, do hereby 
promise most faithfully to endeavour, to the best of my 
